ACE tintable with an HVLP question

[maineidyl]

When you spray the ACE tintable with an HVLP do you spray one coat and then wait for it to become tacky and then spray the second coat? An old time body man told me that I was crazy to do a coat of paint and then let dry, sand and then recoat. He said the proper way to do it is to spray, let tack then apply a second coat.

Will the paint dry if I apply this way? is this how everyone else has sprayed their tintable ACE paint?

Thanks
Tom

 

[thecrazygreek]

Yes, spray all coats at the same time with a few minutes between coats. You just dont want runs, so as soon as it sets up, shoot the next coat...

 

[maineidyl]

ACE and an HVLP

Is it safe to assume that after you lay down two coats of this paint. You let dry and then wet sand with 600 or so and spray again with a few coats. The body shop guy is a nice guy, offered me his booth to shoot it if I would like. But he was telling me to spray it one time with a few coats and be done with it. When I asked about wet sanding he said no need to.

I got from the other posts,

spray
dry
wet sand with fine grit

repeat with finer grit. How many coats is enough?

Thanks
Tom

 

[fliphkd778]

How many coats? Get or print out a sprayout card and do some tests. The number of coats is determined by the number of coats needed to achieve full hiding.
Your body man is right. It's best to do a mist coat(new painters will get crazy here). I mean a single light coat to get the surface sticky. Subsequent layers go on "wetter." It helps prevent runs if your spraying on a to a previous tacky coat. Helps bond all the layers as well. For the last coat, spray it how you want it to look. Avoid running the paint. If it goes on wet and hides, there will be no need to sand or buff.

What manufacture and tip size gun will you be using?

 

[titanpat57]

I'm pretty sure the two wet coat therory would apply with any single stage paint.

I do think if both layers are applied properly, within tollerances, it shouldn't be any problem, and should be thick enough. Your primer color will either help or hinder your final color...sometimes a bit of investigative work will pay off to ensure you have the color your looking for.

Good luck, Pat

 

[maineidyl]

HVLP

Just using a $100.00 Husky gun from Home Depot. I have not had any runs yet. I just did not know if I lay down three or four coats at one time and call it a day. All of the posts that I have seen and read had mentioned wet sanding with finer grades of paper until the last coat. That is why when the body man said that I should lay down several coats while the paint is wet and call it a day I thought he was nuts.

Thanks for the advice.

Tom